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Zimbabwe sells off white farmers' machinery
Africans in Government
Thursday, 15 April 2004 05:55
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"HARARE - The Zimbabwe government is selling to new black farmers tractors, combines and other machinery formerly owned by white farmers whose land was seized under President Robert Mugabe's controversial land reform programme, state media said.

""This equipment is owned by former commercial farmers who are largely hostile and unsupportive to the land reform programme,"" Lands Minister John Nkomo said in a statement quoted by state-run daily The Herald. "
 

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